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Splitting the signals and splitting waterways, CMQ 9020 East splits the frozen waterways of Lake of the Woods (foreground) and the Winnipeg River (background) as they pass the signals at Keewatin, Ontario with an intriguing visitor trailing... BNSF SD70MAC 9413. Having unloaded rail on the Keewatin, the crew is eastbound approaching Kenora for more paperwork to head out onto the Ignace Sub to dump another string of rail before tying up for the night in the back track at Hawk Lake.

Name:	David Young
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	02/28/2022
Location:	Kenora
Province:	Ontario

3 Comments | 15 Favourites

Exiting Wallaceburg, the crew of D924 is southbound passing the northbound approach for the swing bridge located at the North Siding Switch Wallaceburg. This days consist is made up of hoppers for Tupperville and 3 tanks for Sombra. But due to north facing switches requires the crew to traverse the extent of the (then in service portion of the) Sarnia Sub to Dresden to run around their train before working the industries on their return trip.

Name:	David Young
Railway:	CSX Transportation
Date:	05/11/2009
Location:	Wallaceburg
Province:	Ontario

2 Comments | 20 Favourites

Normally by this time of year we have seen shots of CP's Holiday Train as it travels across Canada. 2021 marked the second year in a row of it's annulment due in thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic cancelling its tour through Canada and the States. However CP did hold another virtual Holiday Train, streamed live from their Ogden HQ in Calgary on December 18th. I offer up this image from a couple years ago of the Holiday Train rolling into their stop at Kenora, Ontario as people gather for the free concert and more importantly, donations to local food banks. Here's to hoping see a return in 2022.<br><br>
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays everyone!

Name:	David Young
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	12/03/2018
Location:	Kenora
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 15 Favourites

The crew of the day Woodstock yard is rolling through the empty farm fields of Middlesex County on a gorgeous Spring day. GP9u's CP 8201 and STLH 8245 are (timetable) eastbound with 4 loaded frame cars ex Formet in St Thomas destined for the Oshawa GM plant. Bringing up the rear is a hopper destined for Putnam which has been towed the length of the line and back. The crew will set it off and lift five before returning to Woodstock.

Name:	David Young
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	03/24/2009
Location:	Gladstone
Province:	Ontario

3 Comments | 12 Favourites

With the final chapter closing on this rail line, it's time to take a look back through it's era's. My run in's with this line came during the "Cando Era" throughout the early 2000's. Little did I know at the time this would be my last time chasing the line and my last time catching the old girl powering a train along the line. In this image CCGX GP9 1000 is approaching Olde Baseline Road crossing just south of the hamlet of Inglewood, rolling through the Caledon Country Club on it's northbound journey back to Orangeville. <br><br>CCGX 1000 would be replaced by GP9RM 4009 later this summer and made her final run November 1, 2008 heading up the northbound run of a Credit Valley Explorer excursion. She would be put into storage for a couple years before being reactivated working a spur line in Bath, Ontario. After her retirement she was sent to the CEMR deadline in Winnipeg, MB where she continued to languish until being scrapped in December 2021.

Name:	David Young
Railway:	Cando
Date:	06/20/2008
Location:	Inglewood
Province:	Ontario

4 Comments | 17 Favourites

<i>Here's lookin' at you!</i> Having crew changed and job briefed the outgoing Ignace Sub crew has the 41B on the move. The conductor having some fun for the camera.

Name:	David Young
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	10/09/2021
Location:	Ignace
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 13 Favourites

Pictured in less than ideal lighting conditions, <a href="https://www.cpr.ca/en/community/every-child-matters-locomotive">The Truth and Reconciliation livery</a> pauses in Ignace for a crew change. While seemingly a bright and colourful livery, it reflects on a dark period of Canadian history. Released on the first "National Day for Truth and Reconciliation" on September 30, 2021 it will roam the rails, bringing awareness about the atrocities that unfolded for years at residential schools across Canada.

Name:	David Young
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	10/04/2021
Location:	Ignace
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 22 Favourites

Name:	David Young
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	09/30/2021
Location:	Gravel
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 15 Favourites

A desolate and eerie calm hangs over what was once a steady divisional point at Hawk Junction. The station seems all but abandoned. The unkept station platform has weeds and moss growing along the building where baggage carts once waited to aid in loading and unloading at train time, rocks and glass litter the rest. The only tenants now are the yellow jackets nesting underneath one of the green light fixtures. Isolated showers pass through the area. The mood is solemn. Barely even a chirp from main reservoir from the parked locomotive out front. These late summer days in 2021 see little action. No thru freights run anymore between Hearst and Sault Ste. Marie and the "Tour of the Line" passenger is six years removed from operating. Still being the home terminal for the few remaining former ACR employees, the crew will go on duty in the evening Tuesdays and Thursdays at Hawk, running light up to Oba to lift their traffic for Hearst and perhaps have cars destined for log loading, returning Wednesday and Fridays ex Hearst. They setoff their traffic in the yard at Oba before returning to Hawk Junction- again, usually light power. Although the sale of the line has been agreed upon, pending regulatory approval, these waning days of CN's ownership look bleak.

Name:	David Young
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	08/29/2021
Location:	Hawk Junction
Province:	Ontario

3 Comments | 20 Favourites

They weren't the best of times but they were certainly better than how they are now found along the former Algoma Central in 2021. The southbound passenger, labelled as the "Tour of the Line" train has arrived at Hawk Jct and is taking on a couple passengers while a couple detrain. It's a busy few moments as totes and coolers are unloaded from the baggage car. On the paved platform a number of baggage carts take up real estate, being as inviting and patient as possible for any guests. One may end up being used to rest any waiting luggage, fishing or hunting gear.

Name:	David Young
Railway:	Canadian National
Date:	10/03/2010
Location:	Hawk Junction
Province:	Ontario

2 Comments | 19 Favourites

High above the Deerfoot Trail, a CP job with GP9u's 1647 and 1567 complete with an old van, is beginning their descent to the mainline past the Calgary Herald, having completed their days task along this industrial trackage known as the M Lead, which branches off the Red Deer Sub at Zoo. It is quite the dip down to the mainline... That's the top of the codeline in the foreground! <br><br> <i>On a side note, I found my self checking out recent satellite and street view images of the area and this trackage seems to be unused and abandoned. Time marches on...</i>

Name:	David Young
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	11/07/2007
Location:	Calgary
Province:	Alberta

3 Comments | 14 Favourites

Genesee and Wyoming having threatened to shutter the entire line between Sudbury and Sault Ste. Marie and suspending operations for a brief amount time (can't remember the exact amount, a week- maybe two?) re-appears at the Domtar mill in Espanola to switch the plant. It seems every 10 years or so the American company lobbies the Provincial and Federal governments for millions of dollars in grants to keep up with maintenance threatening to permanently close the line, having done so again in 2020, reaching another successful resolution in May 2021.

Name:	David Young
Railway:	Huron Central Rail…
Date:	08/22/2009
Location:	Espanola
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 17 Favourites

Ignace Yard. Just a shell of it's former self. It's main job these days can see the loading and unloading of supplies for ES (ties, tie plates, anchors, etc), car storage and to facilitate the rock trains which come and go from Dyment Pit 37 miles to the west. So I suppose this picture sums it's purpose up perfectly. A "Box Train" (grain empties) has been yarded in the north yard, while in the south yard a solo gondola loaded with ties sits beside a Herzog train fresh in from "The Pit", having been yarded in track 1 and showcasing the eclectic GMD trio of CP 9014- CP 3649- CP 5866.<br><br>

Of note, you may notice the white haze on the horizon. That is smoke from the reported 76 fires that were burning across the district, within 3 weeks that number would sky rocket to over 120 fires. This year has been incredibly dry across most of western and central Canada and into the northwest region of Ontario. Prayers to all those affected by the fires.

Name:	David Young
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	07/08/2021
Location:	Ignace
Province:	Ontario

4 Comments | 22 Favourites

CEFX 1035 and a fresh CP 8784 lead South Edmonton to Vaughn train 104-15, beginning their descent into the Lakehead have crested the short but steep grade a mile or so earlier- a precursor to the heavy grades which await ahead. Not that they will be an issue for this eastbound hotshot.<br> In the foreground the former CN Graham Sub turned logging road which parallels the Kam Sub from Finmark to Raith.

Name:	David Young
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	08/18/2009
Location:	Raith
Province:	Ontario

Comments | 10 Favourites

GEXR meets OSR in Waterloo? It happened. Goderich and Exeter local No. 584 is returning from Elmira passing "Tar Baby" who was leased to the Waterloo Central in the summer of 2007 for their operations. Here she rests in the siding, coupled to WCR's mix of passenger equipment next to the "new" Waterloo station built for the upstart Waterloo-St Jacob's Railway a decade prior. To say this area has undergone a major facelift, would be an understatement. The WCR hasn't been based out of Waterloo in years, relocating their base up the line to St Jacob's after the ION light rail project moved in, forever changing this scene.

Name:	David Young
Railway:	Ontario Southland
Date:	08/01/2007
Location:	Waterloo
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 18 Favourites

The only time to date I've capture the Barrie-Collingwood Railway running was back in February 2009 as they headed north to Collingwood to service Canadian Mist Distillers. On this bitter February day, <i>The Spirit of Collingwood</i> with a hopper for FS Partners in Stayner and three tanks for Canadian Mist in tow pictured here northbound passing over the quaint and attractive bridge over the Batteaux Creek.

Name:	David Young
Railway:	Cando
Date:	02/24/2009
Location:	Batteaux
Province:	Ontario

3 Comments | 12 Favourites

A dark, calm and quiet winter's night in downtown Revelstoke is broken by the reverberation of a westbound accelerating out of town after a crew change. In the yard a set of GE locomotives idle away, sharing company with a staged eastbound grain empty.

Name:	David Young
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	02/16/2011
Location:	Revelstoke
Province:	British Columbia

1 Comments | 15 Favourites

In 2021 time is ticking down for the Orangeville and Brampton Railway however back in June 2008 it was just another day for the Cando crew. Having delivered their outbound traffic on the south end of the interchange, the crew has coupled up to their Orangeville bound traffic. The hogger checks his watch prior to re-entering his steed, while the conductor walks to make the cut at the old CP caboose (now known as a "riding platform"). Once back in Orangeville, they will make a couple moves in the yard before heading to the industrial trackage at the "north" end of town to switch a couple customers before tying up for the day back at the yard.

Name:	David Young
Railway:	Cando
Date:	06/20/2008
Location:	Streetsville
Province:	Ontario

2 Comments | 13 Favourites

Ontario Southland Railway RS23's 504-505 display what MLW's are all about as they shove their southbound train north, out of the interchange on an overcast April day. Power from GEXR 580 sits parked at the north end of the interchange after the mornings events.<br><br>April 27th in 2007 was a day of drama for the operating railroads in Guelph. Earlier that day Goderich and Exeter freight 580 had derailed a mile or so south of the interchange after crossing Edinburgh Road for their final time. OSR ended up running down to the site to try and rerail one of the derailed cars unsuccessfully. They'd return to the interchange, wye the power and continue on with their day.

Name:	David Young
Railway:	Ontario Southland
Date:	04/27/2007
Location:	Guelph
Province:	Ontario

2 Comments | 14 Favourites

Dubbed the "Superior Flyer", 29B-13 skirts the shores of Lake Superior past the old pit at Cavers. Just ahead of them lies the siding at Gravel, where the power will cut off, run around the train and return to Schreiber. <br><br>This was the second of a number of excursions celebrating the 125th Anniversary of Canadian Pacific that took part over three days. The first operated east out of Thunder Bay to Hurkett and return. The following day they deadheaded the consist over to Schreiber for this evening run to Gravel and return. Over the course of the next two days they would operate an excursion east out of Schreiber to Coldwell in the morning and west to Gravel in the evening.

Name:	David Young
Railway:	Canadian Pacific
Date:	07/13/2010
Location:	Cavers
Province:	Ontario

1 Comments | 8 Favourites

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